All settled in

Well, I think I found a really great place to live. It's only about 1 1/2 miles to the beach and 1 mile to my school. I stumbled upon this place totally randomly and the first door I knock on (my downstairs neighbor) just happens to be a teacher and knows my instructor for the course. We all went out to dinner later that night and had a blast. We hung out in this outdoor thai cafe and ate really, really, really spicy food and drank many Singhas to wash it down. I got to meet my thai instructor as well along with some of my English instructors friends. They are all really sweet and very accomodating. I feel much better having a place to call home, although I'm not sure what it's called yet and I have a hell of a time telling the taxi driver where to go (I'm sure this will change). This part of Thailand is so beautiful. It's a lot of jungle and huge limestone rock formations sticking straight out of the earth. It's really breathtaking.